Note.These readings (selected with an eye toward brevity) are designed to provide context and depth for ALAA’s Union Representative Training Program, which is presented in four 1-hour sessions. Please read the materials prior to the pertinent session.

[4]This briefing paper’s negative characterization of the Society’s position is no longer current, since the 1994-1998 contract contains strong affirmative action language. It is included, however, because achieving greater diversity at Legal Aid — the need for which is articulated in this document — remains a problem.

[5]Both ALAA and the Society regarded as false the second part of this article (not included), which purported to show that Legal Aid attorneys in CDD improperly avoided taking cases at arraignments. The section included here, however, provides useful historical perceptive not available in any other single source.

[6]Optional further reading (materials not included): American Social History Project, Who Built America: Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture and Society (2 vol., 1992); James Green, The World of the Worker: Labor in 20th Century America (1980); Nelson Lichtenstein, Walter Reuther (1995);

[7]Optional further reading (materials not included): Kim Moody, An Injury to All (1988); Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World (1997).